David O. Russell to adapt The Silver Linings Playbook

David O. Russell and the novel The Silver Linings Playbook have been mentioned in the same breath for a while, but several reports now say the Weinstein Company has finally swooped in and contracted the writer-director to helm the project.

Published last fall, the novel, by Matthew Quick, concerns a former high-school teacher who
moves in with his mother after a time at a mental hospital. His attempts to re-enter his past life balance
quirk with understated pathos, which fits in nicely with Russell’s
off-kilter oeuvre,&nbsp; including I Heart Huckabees and Three Kings.
Russell will write and direct, and though no one is attached to star, a
little voice somewhere calls out the name Jason Schwartzman.

Russell’s latest movie, Nailed, follows an erratic small-town waitress
who ends up in Washington D.C. after a nail becomes lodged in her head.
A political satire and romantic comedy, naturally, the movie suffered
through an under-financed production, and its future release still isn’t settled.